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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAInternational
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 19, 2019
Items in today’s column include:
*Eight Jewish candidates to date; two more would make a minyan
*Beth Israel Quarterly provides personal insights into congregation’s leaders
*The Israel Philatelist Finds Jewish Stamp Stories the World Over
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USATrump again honors Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein
Vaus said Goldstein and Trump “have a real connection” growing out of that April tragedy and giving way to “constant contact” with the White House (“They keep checking in to make sure we have everything that we need.”)
The 58-year-old rabbi also visited the Oval Office.
Eight days ago, Vaus said, he and Goldstein sought to return the courtesy.
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Jewish History, Ken Stone, San Diego County, USAOur Shtetl San Diego County: September 18, 2019
Items in this column include:
*Local businessmen fly to Bahamas to help victims of Hurricane Dorian
*Councilmembers Bry and Campbell often find common ground
*San Diegans will host IDF veterans as they sort out combat memories
*Bible Players to enliven services this weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHost chapters offer Israeli veterans peace of mind
By Nitay Gold SAN DIEGO — In Israel, the military is so deeply ingrained in the culture that we sometimes forget what the army means. Most Israeli kids go into the army at about the same age as kids go to college in the States. We want to succeed, but we don’t always know what
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Middle East, San Diego CountyDiary of a Benny Gantz supporter
I have to vote. If it’s the last thing I do. I’m there, I’m two minutes early. My sweat is dripping of my face as I look at the hall with twenty other Israelis my age waiting to cast their vote. I sign a paper saying I couldn’t vote at my poll. I couldn’t, I didn’t think I’d make it there. I take care to write the information carefully. I do my best to do everything perfect. I can’t screw up again.
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Middle East, Sam LitvinIsrael’s post- election battle of egos
Likud is unable to form a right-wing government. The lack of mandates earned by the smaller right-wing and religious parties prevent that option without Liberman, and Liberman made issues with the religious parties part of his electioneering platform. So no right-religious deal is possible without the heavy Liberman climbing down from his political tree.
Gantz is unable to form a center-left coalition even with the Arab party without Liberman because Liberman has said he will not sit in any government with the current Arab politicians, most of whom he sees as anti-Israel antagonists and not part of the Israeli consensus.
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Barry Shaw, Middle EastIsrael’s election results: Same as before
Binyamin Netanyahu is still not able to form a government without Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, but the latter refuses to serve under or with the current prime minister. As the acknowledged king maker without whom there can be no majority government in Israel, Liberman says that he wants a secular government consisting of Likud without Netanyahu; the Blue and White party led by Benny Gantz and the other generals (plus Yair Lapid); and – of course, above all – himself. Though this is by no means a perfect solution, it seems vastly preferable to the alternatives.
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Middle EastCollege faculties often seek to eliminate Israel
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– As students settle back onto campuses across the country, AMCHA Initiative releases a new report, The Harassment of Jewish Students on U.S. Campuses: How Eliminationist Anti-Zionism and Academic BDS Incite Campus Anti-Semitism. The report illuminates a number of critical shifts and increases in campus anti-Semitism in the past year and includes
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USARemembering Chaim Herzog
The late President of Israel Chaim Herzog was born on this date (September 17) in 1918.
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International, Middle EastSan Diego holds its first Sephardic Festival
I had to smile on Saturday night at the Sephardic Festival held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center [JCC] this past weekend. There was a short film, Our San Diego Sephardic Voices, about the Sephardim in San Diego. One of the women interviewed said she was in a “mixed marriage” as her husband was Ashkenazi. Another woman spoke about the differences in food as the Sephardic eat much more rice than their eastern European counterparts.
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International, Lifestyles, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodOur Shtetl San Diego County: September 16, 2019
Items in today’s column:
*San Diego County teens, successful in past, may apply for Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards
*Bible, Holocaust, and Israel subjects of new books by local authors
*Barbara Bry gets backing of neighborhoods group in mayoral race
*Sukkot activity planning well underway in the county
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASaudi, Kuwaiti Airlines accused of illegal bias
“While we understand that [the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)] will not confirm nor deny the existence of any ongoing potential investigation into Saudia and/or KAC, it appears that both airlines have simply been left to continue operating in (and economically benefiting from) the United States while brazenly flouting the nation’s laws. Nearly two years after our last communication with BIS, we have yet to see any progress towards thwarting this implementation of the Arab League boycott on our own soil and protecting Israelis within our country from such discrimination.”
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International, Middle East, USAAttack on Saudi fields most likely came from Iraq
It is growing more certain that the attacks on the Khurais oil field and the Abqaiq oil processing center in Saudi Arabia were launched from southern Iraq and not from Yemen by the Houthis. This was made clear by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who said “There is no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.” While Pompeo put the blame squarely on Iran, he did not say where the attacks originated. Meanwhile the Saudi Arabian Air Force launched retaliatory attacks on Houthis military sites in Yemen.
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Middle East, Stephen D. Bryen